When I held these fishes in my hands it brought tears to my eyes. (Left: Nanobagrus immaculatus; Right, Nanobagrus nebulosus)
Came across a paper on domestic goldfish that showed the same thing I’ve been saying this whole time - these short bodied breeds have been bred to extremes, causing disfigurements that impair t...
I’m absolutely obsessed with my current D&D character which is great for D&D but it makes it hard to focus on work sometimes. I super need to write my thesis whoops. So anyways let me tell yo...
markscherz : > a-book-of-creatures > : > > >> I think I stumbled upon some kind of ichthyological forbidden >> knowledge. Opened up a book of names that were never...
Oh also there’s potential for the work I’m doing to reveal a massive conservation bluder being actively made by government fish and wildfe management agencies here in the US. 😬 More to com...
Hm, I think I need a new header line for my tumblr. I think I can call myself a systematic ichthyologist now. I’m not really an “ichthyologist in the making” anymore, though I’m still lea...
All my deadlines are fast approaching. 💀 I need to get my proposal formally submitted by next week, then be done with the whole actual thesis by the end of the month. Defend early June. Conf...
Oh! I just realized I never posted updates. It looks like the last anyone here heard about my academic pursuits was still mostly about recovering from my traumatic experience with my original PI....
narelleart : > ANYONE HERE A KILLI PERSON INVOLVED IN KILLI CLUBS? > > I need access to an article that’s locked behind a membership to > Killi-Data. I’m hoping t...
I kind of want to be a tumblr again.
ANYONE HERE A KILLI PERSON INVOLVED IN KILLI CLUBS? I need access to an article that’s locked behind a membership to Killi-Data. I’m hoping to find someone that already has access so I don�...
narelleart : > I haven’t posted here in a long time. It’s because my doctoral > studies took a nose dive - my PI I was so excited about stepped down > as my ad...
In scientific names, if the specific epithet (the second half of the Genus + species binomial name) ends in an “i”, that traditionally means the rest of the specific epithet preceeding the i ...
I haven’t posted here in a long time. It’s because my doctoral studies took a nose dive - my PI I was so excited about stepped down as my advisor for discriminatory reasons. (He was consisten...
cyprinella : > FANTAIL DARTERS (ETHEOSTOMA FLABELLARE) BY OLAF NELSON > > Via Flickr: > Fantail Darters (Etheostoma flabellare) from a small creek in > Dubuque Coun...
narelleart : > I visited a nearby city and stopped in a fish store that had four > “species” of Parosphromenus (one undescribed, under a trade > name). > > I co...
I visited a nearby city and stopped in a fish store that had four “species” of Parosphromenus (one undescribed, under a trade name). I couldn’t just leave, so I took home the pair they ha...
The older I’ve gotten, the sicker I’ve gotten, and the more I’ve had to work to advocate for myself because of the limitations of my illness. I’ve had to come to terms with recognizing my...
tinyzoologist : > I am once again catching myself getting sentimental about species > descriptions… The sheer care and dedication of looking at a tiny > little animal ...
Another dumb epiphany today: I really love loaches but have never kept any in aquaria because I love catfishes more and don’t want to crowd the substrate area/have the catfishes constantly pe...